VITAMIN BANDWAGON
Sir-The opinions of the average qualified medical practitioner on the question of vitamins and diet must be accepted with a great deal of reserve. The medical profession has a most unfortunate history of opposition to anything new, and its stultifying conservaism delayed for many years the introduction of a great many new ideas which ultimately were of untold benefit to humanity. Anaesthetics, disinfectants, pasteurisation, radiology, twilight sleep, inoculation, etc., and in our day dietetics and the Social Security Medical Services, were all implacably opposed as were, and are, the osteopath and the chiropractor, It is only five or six years since a Chair of Dietetics was established at the Otago Medical School, The time will come when our doctors will banish a great deal of sickness from
the land with the help of diet and vitamins. Meantime, we should remember that*many important medical discoveries were made by "unqualified" people.
JANUS
(Upper Hutt). |
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 9, Issue 224, 8 October 1943, Page 3
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154VITAMIN BANDWAGON New Zealand Listener, Volume 9, Issue 224, 8 October 1943, Page 3
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